Future New York: Just A Bunch of Boxes Stacked Up Wherever

When people speak of the architectural aesthetic of new new New York, they tend to point to generically sleek condos or anonymous industrial condos or gravity-defying condos, but perhaps the aesthetic of the next new New York, perfectly transformed into a vast three-dimensional vault, is B O X E S. Part Lego, part Jenga, part shipping container, and all capital.

Boxes that kind of look like a pile of half-melted ice cubes. (Williamsburg)

Or a pile of shoeboxes. (Lower East Side)

Perhaps a neat, orderly stack of boxes. (Flatiron)

Check out this box of ROCKS. (Tribeca)

A Jenga winner!!!! (Jersey City)

Watch out, somebody bumped into all these boxes. (Midtown)

The robot did a real nice job piling up those boxes.(Harlem)

These boxes would be great for holding your pet reptiles. (Chelsea)

Hey, those boxes that look like they might tip over at any second, whoOaOAAOAOaaooaoaoA. (DUMBO)

A Jenga loser!!!!!! (Tribeca)

Paper mache boxes are great, just great. (Greenwich Village)

The leaning tower of BOXES. (Radio Row)

Baby’s first Lego construction. (Hudson Whatever)

Boxes fit for a beehive. (Hell’s Kitchen)

Is there a hidden message spelled out in the boxes? (Williamsburg)